Great tutorial, I cant stand that there is no visual display going on with the obs filters especially with their compressor, I want to see how much compression is being applied which the reaper plugin shows nice and clearly
Dude your way of explaining things its so good!! Im not tech savvy at all and usually struggle understanding tutorials about these topics but your video made total sense to me. I really appreciate that you took your time to share your knowledge, it made a huge difference in how my mic sounds and it has been something that worried me since i began streaming some months ago. Thank u so much! (Also your way of speaking is super clear so i had no trouble understanding what you said even tho my english listening skills are quite bad hehe)
The noise reduction is a game changer! Never heard my voice this clear without any background noise, I mean there is still some background noise but still not as bad as it usually is! Thanks for the awesome guide!
I defintiely have been doing things wrong, because my processed audio attempts often sound worse than the raw audio. This is the most apprachable advice I've been given about EQ settings though. Because it's so specific to your own voice
This is an incredibly thorough and rewarding video to watch in full, thank you! While the steps need to be done in order, I tried my best to timestamp some of the categories of info for quick referencing or reviewing just in case. Hopefully I hit the right notes, and sorry if I missed anything super important. 1:45 - Quality, Windows and OBS Settings 5:48 - Microphone Patterns 9:22 - Microphone Positioning 15:30 - Input and Output Levels 20:02 - Filters and Plugins Overview (Go get Reaper plugins!) 21:25 - Noise Reduction 24:09 - Noise Gate 27:39 - EQ 32:33 - Compressor 37:52 - Limiter
Patch recommended this to me the other day and I just have to say thank you! You were very straightforward and explained things in a way that wasn't too difficult to understand
"when chat says your mic is too quiet turn EVERYTHING ELSE down" HA! I KNEW IT! I'm a kind of intermediate audio person I would say, but I always do this when I'm told mic is too quiet
Thank you thank you and more thank you, this is so well explained, and all the information is super helpful, I've been struggling with mic configuration for a while and this video summarized more than 6 months of me going around forums and different pages, I love it, I'll share it in the future with anyone who needs a hand with this kind of stuff.
This is it, this the perfect guide that I have been looking for! The difference after doing my own changes using this guide was night and day! Thank so much yet again for making some of the best Vtuber Guides I have seen, probably the number one to be honest!
This was so incredibly well explained! I didn't get the usual feeling of apprehension I get when trying to learn something I'm not at all familiar with. This video is extremely helpful! Thank you so much for this! ❤
thank you so so much for this video! I tried all of everything you said and my voice sounds so much better on stream !! I am someone who talks quite softly so it's hard for my mic to pick me up normally.
Great guide! If I may I find that for the EQ I was struggling alot in listening to myself until I randomly played a voice clip redeem of mine and noticed how that changed. I then got the idea to record my voice and play it in a loop to find that muddiness and sweetspots. I do not know if this might help someone but helped out extremely for me.
Had I known all this a year ago rather than the "this will fix your setup" shit, I may have been dangerous... still stupid, but at least sounding better because of it! Thanks Marrow and the fairy for showing me here
Was this video easy to understand? Is there anything specific you'd like to ask about? Drop a comment and I'll do my best to help! also, why not stop by the most revealing show on Twitch? (literally no skin) 🟣twitch.tv/marrowmage 📅 The Academy is live three times a week! 🕑 Monday: 17-30 GMT / 09-30 PT 🕑 Wednesday: 17-30 GMT / 09-30 PT 🕑 Saturday: 17-30 GMT / 09-30 PT
Can't thank you enough for this one. VERY well explained without the detail being overwhelming. Legit one of the best audio tutorials I've watched and my mic sounds so much better now.
those details are very good explained! i took myself time to adjust it and i gotta say! my mic and voice sound WAY better than i had it before! your tutorial is a masterpiece indeed! Respect my dude!
the video was very helpful to go through my mic audio settings in obs with your guidance. the best parts of the video are the explanations that accompany each setting and the example at the end of showing what settings look like on/off. In the future, it would be helpful to gain an understanding of how to position your mic audio next to other audio items in obs (e.g., game sounds, alerts, music, etc.). I think that type of content may accompany this video well. great work marrowmage and hope to see more from the academy! now to start streaming, if i ever get around to doing it.... but i love learning. this was really cool and well done!
Found a link to this on twitter earlier today, thank you so so much for this video Marrow! It was fun and easy to work along and it hopefully will improve my future streams. Thx for sharing your knowledge!
finally getting around to setting my microphone up proper thanks to you what setup would you have for singing karaoke, would you do anything differently?
Incredibly helpful with the VST plugins especially, since I had them but didn't quite know which ones were important or what they were, really. The built-in plugins in OBS really don't give you as much control as these VST plugins.
Ima look forward to watching all of this. A quick question, could there be some chapters in the video just so coming back to parts I can skim to those parts I need. Much love Mouse Eye!
Hi! Just got done watching your video ^-^ It was incredibly insightful. Thank you so much! I did have a question however. We always stream in a group of people all in the same room. We all sit on the couch together, so we're pretty close to each other. There's always at least 2 of us, sometimes 3 or 4. What do you recommend we do? I've considered getting everyone lav mics, but I worry that the mics will pick up other people, not just the person that the mic is clipped onto. Right now there's a lot of echo, which I do recognize is partly because we stream in a living room with tall ceilings, no carpet, etc. I think it used to sound better when we had the obs noise gate on. However, a lot of laughs and other things would get cut off. So we recently (like last week) turned off all filters and now you can hear everything, including sounds in the room like the projector, any shuffling, etc. I'm kind of at a loss because I feel like we just have a bad set up for streaming, but the living room is really the only place that accommodates all of the people we like to stream with XD We currently use a blue snowball mic on a mic arm that is positioned in the middle of everyone. Usually one person is sitting closer to the mic than the others, so I think it sounds uneven. You can really tell what person is sitting closer to the mic. Which makes sense XD I will definitely give everything you mentioned in this video a try, but I just wanted to hear your thoughts about our situation.
Heya!! Great question. The ideal solution would probably be getting everyone a lav mic, as you mentioned. You'll get some 'bleed' between people but it should be minor enough that it'll still fix the primary problem. Another solution that might be worth looking into is NVIDIA broadcast, which comes with the RTX line of graphics cards. It's essentially an AI version of the noise suppression plugin I used in this video, that's trained to remove the classic negative sounds of streaming. That might do a much better job for your situation than the noise sup/gate combo shown here. Positioning a single mic for a group of people in a casual setting is definitely tricky. What I'd recommend is setting the mic to it's cardioid polar pattern, then picking up something called a reflection filter. It's basically a half open box that will reduce of the sound being reflected off the walls around the mic!
Hello Marrow! Your tutorial is amazing and incredibly helpful!.. but when it comes to the Replugins part for the filters my streamlabs Obs doesnt seem to work. i restarted my Streamlabs after downloading the plugins and go to the filters, which even though it shows the VST 2.x Plugin added it in and yet when i try to choose the specific filter like noise reduction for example there arent any options at all just the one saying (please select a plugin). Please help me on this im so lost ;w;
Late to the party but this was fantastic marrow. That was a great and easy to follow along video. I learned a lot and the idea of a tutorial meeting people were they are at is great. There are things you talk about in this video that I will have to revisit because I'm limited in my current set up. The only thing I struggled with was listening for those changes in my voice. That might be a skill issue though. Thx for the amazing video. I'm passing it out to friends and family who are interested in this sort of thing.
Thank you so much for the video! I notice that when I open ReaFir I dont get the spectral analysis. Instead I see about 10 completely vertical lines around the 1k-5k mark and I dont know what that is. I tried unplugging and re-plugging in my mic, turning logitech blue Voice off and on. I'm using a Blue Yeti 1.0 if that helps. I tried googling it and nothing has come up :\ The other filters do work, it seems to only be that one for some reason.
figured it out - i think my mic is broken lol it seems like audio input only works through the left side. The bars in ReaGate show the right side as full at all times and when i wasnt streaming in mono people only heard me through their left ear lol
I'm unsure if I just missed it, but is there any reason in particular to mess with the microphone levels in windows settings, rather than just leaving it at 100% and just turning the blue (output?) slider in OBS down?
Yes, there is actually! The volume slider in the windows settings adjusts the *input* gain of most USB microphones. If this level is at 100% there's a good chance the signal is too strong and your mic will be distorting, regardless of if you turn it down in OBS. That's why correctly setting the input vs. output gain correctly is super important.
Do you have a video for Mac users on GarageBand because I use that to record audio this video is very good but it doesn't really help me but a video like this would have been so useful for me 3 years ago especially on the microphone portion of this video because I had no clue what the difference of dynamic and condenser mic is
So I am having a problem with echo >.< any tips on that. I followed your video and it def doesn't sound as crisp(user error I am 100%) Your video is amazing!!!
Hey Vamp! If you're having a problem with room echo, unfortunately there isn't a great way to fix it outside of rearranging your room so that there are more things on the walls, etc. to absorb the sound. I think NVIDIA Broadcast might have an option to reduce it artificially, which might be worth looking in to. Addressing it at the source is always best though, as the more things you add to the mic signal, the worse quality it gets.
@@marrowmage Thank you so much for your response!! I thought it was room echo but obs recordings is the only one who sounds like I am echoing/reverbing(heard someone explain it like that).
i actually think i sound worse LOL, everything sounds so echoey and yuck. how do i remove that? EDIT: it seems that the noise reduction filter is causing a lot of the echoey and electronic sounds that i hear on playback. however, without the noise reduction filter, everything in the background becomes audible. im not sure how i can fix this issue. any advice?
Will this work well with someone using Voicemod? I use a cyborg voice change and I've been wondering why some words and stuff cut out a bit or don't go through.
I've used Voicemod before (along with Voicemeeter), but what I noticed is that Voicemod has its own background noise cancellation and that might interfere and cut your words out. I was DM-ing for my friends and often get told that my voice cuts off often and I realised that's one reason. It likely has to do with the Noise Gate function. If so, turn those function off and try to see if it still cuts your words.
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MARROW, YOU'RE SO GOOD AT THIS THANK YOU!
Once again, you've been an incredible help! I seriously appreciated all that you did here, it's helped me tremendously!
Great tutorial, I cant stand that there is no visual display going on with the obs filters especially with their compressor, I want to see how much compression is being applied which the reaper plugin shows nice and clearly
Dude your way of explaining things its so good!! Im not tech savvy at all and usually struggle understanding tutorials about these topics but your video made total sense to me. I really appreciate that you took your time to share your knowledge, it made a huge difference in how my mic sounds and it has been something that worried me since i began streaming some months ago. Thank u so much! (Also your way of speaking is super clear so i had no trouble understanding what you said even tho my english listening skills are quite bad hehe)
I'm so happy to hear that Chiran!! Thank you for the comment
The noise reduction is a game changer! Never heard my voice this clear without any background noise, I mean there is still some background noise but still not as bad as it usually is! Thanks for the awesome guide!
I defintiely have been doing things wrong, because my processed audio attempts often sound worse than the raw audio. This is the most apprachable advice I've been given about EQ settings though. Because it's so specific to your own voice
10/10 advice, I'll make sure to refer anyone that asks me about audio because its really well explained
Professor Marrow to the Rescue!
Although I don’t have a mic at all at the moment, I’ll still save this Tutorial for later, tysm for the help ^^
No worries my friend!
This is an incredibly thorough and rewarding video to watch in full, thank you! While the steps need to be done in order, I tried my best to timestamp some of the categories of info for quick referencing or reviewing just in case. Hopefully I hit the right notes, and sorry if I missed anything super important.
1:45 - Quality, Windows and OBS Settings
5:48 - Microphone Patterns
9:22 - Microphone Positioning
15:30 - Input and Output Levels
20:02 - Filters and Plugins Overview (Go get Reaper plugins!)
21:25 - Noise Reduction
24:09 - Noise Gate
27:39 - EQ
32:33 - Compressor
37:52 - Limiter
Woah thank you so much for this!! You nailed it. I'll get those added in asap!
Patch recommended this to me the other day and I just have to say thank you! You were very straightforward and explained things in a way that wasn't too difficult to understand
YIPPEEEEEE I'm so glad it helped!!
"when chat says your mic is too quiet turn EVERYTHING ELSE down"
HA! I KNEW IT!
I'm a kind of intermediate audio person I would say, but I always do this when I'm told mic is too quiet
Thank you thank you and more thank you, this is so well explained, and all the information is super helpful, I've been struggling with mic configuration for a while and this video summarized more than 6 months of me going around forums and different pages, I love it, I'll share it in the future with anyone who needs a hand with this kind of stuff.
This is it, this the perfect guide that I have been looking for! The difference after doing my own changes using this guide was night and day! Thank so much yet again for making some of the best Vtuber Guides I have seen, probably the number one to be honest!
Very good video, thank you so much for all this advice! Plus I loved watching the little mouse bounce around in ye ole eyesocket >:3
This was so incredibly well explained! I didn't get the usual feeling of apprehension I get when trying to learn something I'm not at all familiar with. This video is extremely helpful! Thank you so much for this! ❤
thank you so so much for this video! I tried all of everything you said and my voice sounds so much better on stream !! I am someone who talks quite softly so it's hard for my mic to pick me up normally.
Thank you. This helped me immensely. The background noise was driving me crazy.
Great guide! If I may I find that for the EQ I was struggling alot in listening to myself until I randomly played a voice clip redeem of mine and noticed how that changed. I then got the idea to record my voice and play it in a loop to find that muddiness and sweetspots. I do not know if this might help someone but helped out extremely for me.
Had I known all this a year ago rather than the "this will fix your setup" shit, I may have been dangerous... still stupid, but at least sounding better because of it! Thanks Marrow and the fairy for showing me here
Damn, the explanation is very good, very detailed. This will help a lot of people
Was this video easy to understand? Is there anything specific you'd like to ask about? Drop a comment and I'll do my best to help!
also, why not stop by the most revealing show on Twitch? (literally no skin)
🟣twitch.tv/marrowmage
📅 The Academy is live three times a week!
🕑 Monday: 17-30 GMT / 09-30 PT
🕑 Wednesday: 17-30 GMT / 09-30 PT
🕑 Saturday: 17-30 GMT / 09-30 PT
This video was very helpful to me setting up my audio! 😄😄😄😄😄😄
Can't thank you enough for this one. VERY well explained without the detail being overwhelming. Legit one of the best audio tutorials I've watched and my mic sounds so much better now.
This video was amazing something i have been looking for a long time
Didn't except such a long tutorial, thanks a lot !
No worries, LeRoiOs! Hope it helps!
Your tutorial explained everything so well and went beyond so many other tutorial videos I've tried to watch. Thank you so much!
Thanks Lunasa!! Hope it's useful
awesome video helped me a ton sounds so much better and was very easy to follow 10/10
those details are very good explained! i took myself time to adjust it and i gotta say! my mic and voice sound WAY better than i had it before! your tutorial is a masterpiece indeed! Respect my dude!
the video was very helpful to go through my mic audio settings in obs with your guidance. the best parts of the video are the explanations that accompany each setting and the example at the end of showing what settings look like on/off. In the future, it would be helpful to gain an understanding of how to position your mic audio next to other audio items in obs (e.g., game sounds, alerts, music, etc.). I think that type of content may accompany this video well. great work marrowmage and hope to see more from the academy! now to start streaming, if i ever get around to doing it.... but i love learning. this was really cool and well done!
Found a link to this on twitter earlier today, thank you so so much for this video Marrow! It was fun and easy to work along and it hopefully will improve my future streams. Thx for sharing your knowledge!
finally getting around to setting my microphone up proper thanks to you
what setup would you have for singing karaoke, would you do anything differently?
Incredibly helpful with the VST plugins especially, since I had them but didn't quite know which ones were important or what they were, really. The built-in plugins in OBS really don't give you as much control as these VST plugins.
Yeah! The lack of visual feedback is a huge reason the controls are so confusing IMO
Ima look forward to watching all of this. A quick question, could there be some chapters in the video just so coming back to parts I can skim to those parts I need. Much love Mouse Eye!
Added!
I need someone like you in my life 😔
Hi! Just got done watching your video ^-^ It was incredibly insightful. Thank you so much! I did have a question however.
We always stream in a group of people all in the same room. We all sit on the couch together, so we're pretty close to each other. There's always at least 2 of us, sometimes 3 or 4. What do you recommend we do? I've considered getting everyone lav mics, but I worry that the mics will pick up other people, not just the person that the mic is clipped onto.
Right now there's a lot of echo, which I do recognize is partly because we stream in a living room with tall ceilings, no carpet, etc. I think it used to sound better when we had the obs noise gate on. However, a lot of laughs and other things would get cut off. So we recently (like last week) turned off all filters and now you can hear everything, including sounds in the room like the projector, any shuffling, etc. I'm kind of at a loss because I feel like we just have a bad set up for streaming, but the living room is really the only place that accommodates all of the people we like to stream with XD
We currently use a blue snowball mic on a mic arm that is positioned in the middle of everyone. Usually one person is sitting closer to the mic than the others, so I think it sounds uneven. You can really tell what person is sitting closer to the mic. Which makes sense XD
I will definitely give everything you mentioned in this video a try, but I just wanted to hear your thoughts about our situation.
Heya!! Great question. The ideal solution would probably be getting everyone a lav mic, as you mentioned. You'll get some 'bleed' between people but it should be minor enough that it'll still fix the primary problem. Another solution that might be worth looking into is NVIDIA broadcast, which comes with the RTX line of graphics cards. It's essentially an AI version of the noise suppression plugin I used in this video, that's trained to remove the classic negative sounds of streaming. That might do a much better job for your situation than the noise sup/gate combo shown here. Positioning a single mic for a group of people in a casual setting is definitely tricky. What I'd recommend is setting the mic to it's cardioid polar pattern, then picking up something called a reflection filter. It's basically a half open box that will reduce of the sound being reflected off the walls around the mic!
Hello Marrow! Your tutorial is amazing and incredibly helpful!.. but when it comes to the Replugins part for the filters my streamlabs Obs doesnt seem to work. i restarted my Streamlabs after downloading the plugins and go to the filters, which even though it shows the VST 2.x Plugin added it in and yet when i try to choose the specific filter like noise reduction for example there arent any options at all just the one saying (please select a plugin). Please help me on this im so lost ;w;
*Curious on the difference of having the eq before or after compressor in obs?*
Thank you so much!
Glad it helped!
Late to the party but this was fantastic marrow. That was a great and easy to follow along video. I learned a lot and the idea of a tutorial meeting people were they are at is great. There are things you talk about in this video that I will have to revisit because I'm limited in my current set up. The only thing I struggled with was listening for those changes in my voice. That might be a skill issue though. Thx for the amazing video. I'm passing it out to friends and family who are interested in this sort of thing.
Thank you so much for the video! I notice that when I open ReaFir I dont get the spectral analysis. Instead I see about 10 completely vertical lines around the 1k-5k mark and I dont know what that is. I tried unplugging and re-plugging in my mic, turning logitech blue Voice off and on. I'm using a Blue Yeti 1.0 if that helps. I tried googling it and nothing has come up :\
The other filters do work, it seems to only be that one for some reason.
figured it out - i think my mic is broken lol it seems like audio input only works through the left side. The bars in ReaGate show the right side as full at all times and when i wasnt streaming in mono people only heard me through their left ear lol
I'm unsure if I just missed it, but is there any reason in particular to mess with the microphone levels in windows settings, rather than just leaving it at 100% and just turning the blue (output?) slider in OBS down?
Yes, there is actually! The volume slider in the windows settings adjusts the *input* gain of most USB microphones. If this level is at 100% there's a good chance the signal is too strong and your mic will be distorting, regardless of if you turn it down in OBS. That's why correctly setting the input vs. output gain correctly is super important.
Its like with my mic. When its 100% in Windows it sounds so trash and boosted. Did bring it down to 65% and sounds amazing compared to 100%.
@@marrowmage That makes sense, thank you!
I followed everything properly but I don't get a open plug interface button when i click the filter. I don't know what I did wrong. lol
Appreciate it mouse dude
Do you have a video for Mac users on GarageBand because I use that to record audio this video is very good but it doesn't really help me but a video like this would have been so useful for me 3 years ago especially on the microphone portion of this video because I had no clue what the difference of dynamic and condenser mic is
Unfortunately not! GarageBand isn't a program I even have access to unfortunately :(
@@marrowmage its no problem this video was really good
So I am having a problem with echo >.< any tips on that. I followed your video and it def doesn't sound as crisp(user error I am 100%) Your video is amazing!!!
Hey Vamp! If you're having a problem with room echo, unfortunately there isn't a great way to fix it outside of rearranging your room so that there are more things on the walls, etc. to absorb the sound. I think NVIDIA Broadcast might have an option to reduce it artificially, which might be worth looking in to. Addressing it at the source is always best though, as the more things you add to the mic signal, the worse quality it gets.
@@marrowmage Thank you so much for your response!! I thought it was room echo but obs recordings is the only one who sounds like I am echoing/reverbing(heard someone explain it like that).
i actually think i sound worse LOL, everything sounds so echoey and yuck. how do i remove that?
EDIT: it seems that the noise reduction filter is causing a lot of the echoey and electronic sounds that i hear on playback. however, without the noise reduction filter, everything in the background becomes audible. im not sure how i can fix this issue. any advice?
Will this work well with someone using Voicemod? I use a cyborg voice change and I've been wondering why some words and stuff cut out a bit or don't go through.
I've used Voicemod before (along with Voicemeeter), but what I noticed is that Voicemod has its own background noise cancellation and that might interfere and cut your words out. I was DM-ing for my friends and often get told that my voice cuts off often and I realised that's one reason. It likely has to do with the Noise Gate function. If so, turn those function off and try to see if it still cuts your words.
This video needs to be stored in an antiquarium
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